En Madrid dicen hacer y en Lima haser. La diferencia es sutil. Y sin embargo, alrededor del mundo, desde el Amazonas al Ártico, los pueblos indígenas y tribales lo dicen de 4.000 maneras completamente distintas.

Tristemente, nadie dice ni hace ya nada en eyak, una lengua del golfo de Alaska,...

Childhood memories are often connected to the natural world. Adults, when asked, will remember a walk through a wood, or counting the spots on a ladybird; they think of grassy dens, tree-houses and scooping up tadpoles from spring streams.

For Clare Morpurgo, who set up the educational charity

HH The Dalai Lama in Scotland as self-immolations amongst Tibetan nomads rise.

Tibet's spiritual leader, HH The Dalai Lama is in Scotland today amid growing concern over the rise of self-immolation amongst Tibetan nomads.

More than 30 Tibetans are known to have set themselves on fire in...

There exist some stories so tragic, in which brutal events create so much loss, that it would seem impossible to recover from the grief, or summon the will to live another day. And yet they are also inspiring in their when-the-chips-are-down determination;...

The news that the charred remains of a German traveller have been found in the forest of Nuka Hiva, one of the largest of the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific, is tragic and horrifying. The perpetrator, whoever it was, has not yet been caught, but sensational stories of 'cannibalism'...

'Many children are suffering,' said Dilma Modesto, a Guarani health agent from Brazil. 'I want the children to be as they were before, when all was OK.'

'Before' was when the Guarani hunted freely on their homelands, and planted manioc and corn in their gardens. It was before their forests...

The grasslands of America's Great Plains stretch for miles across the sagebrush steppe of South Dakota as far as the Black Hills. It was here, in 1980, that acres of spruce trees and creek-carved canyons were declared a 'wilderness' reserve by the U.S. government.

To the indigenous North American...

It rises in Ethiopia's Shewa Highlands, and flows for 760 kms through terraced hillsides, volcanic outcrops and fertile grasslands as far as the world's greatest desert lake, Lake Turkana, in Kenya.

The lower valley of the Omo River is believed by some historians to have been a...